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While many paint the combined impact of climate change and global markets as something new, unpredictable, and unmanageable, they fail to grasp that most situations we are projected to see in the next few decades* have been experienced before in the form of previous extremes. Take, for example, the figure below:
This is a graph of the annual rainfall at one rain gauge in Ghana, near where I conducted the research that made up a big part of my book Delivering Development. The downward trend in rainfall is clear (and representative of the trend in this part of coastal West Africa that, according to my colleagues at IRI, continues to this day and is confirmed by satellite measurements). There are complex things happening inside these annual figures, including shifting timing of rainfall, but for the purposes of discussion here, it serves to make a point. While there is indeed a downward trend that continues to this day, there have already been several years where the total precipitation was much lower than the current average precipitation, or the likely annual precipitation for the next few decades.
This means is that the farmers in Dominase and Ponkrum, like so many around the world, have already seen the future – that is, they have already lived through at least one, if not several, seasons like those we expect to become the norm some decades in the future. These farmers survived those seasons, and learned from them, adjusting their expectations and strategies to account for the possibility of recurrence. These adjustments are likely over- or under-compensating for the likelihood of recurrence right now, as livelihoods strategies in these villages are largely reactive, reflecting last season's events more than the average season. Further, the year-to-year hedging of farms against climate variability can be a costly practice – the likely "insurance premium" of lost production in a good year (due to planting in less-than-ideal, but precipitation-hedged situations like the tops and bottoms of hills – see my discussion in Chapter 4 of Delivering Development) probably eats up somewhere between 10% and 20% of total potential production. So these management strategies are not ideal. But they do reflect local capacities to adjust and account for extreme conditions, the extreme rainfall or drought events out along the tails of historical distributions whose unpredictable recurrences characterize a changing climate regime. Many of these farmers have little or no access to inputs, limited to no access to seasonal forecasts, and live in states without safety nets, yet they have repeatedly survived very difficult seasons. Clearly, their capacity for survival in an uncertain environment and economy is worthy of our respect.
This is not a phenomenon specific to Ghana. For example, the farmers in southern Mali with whom I (and many others) have been working to deliver better and more relevant climate services, such as seasonal and short-term forecasts. Most, if not all, of these farmers are using local indicators, such as the flowering of a particular tree or the emergence of a particular insect, as indicators that help them time various activities in their agricultural cycle. Many trust their local indicators more than the forecasts, perhaps with some reason – their indicators actually seem to work and the forecasts are not yet as accurate as anyone would like. But these indicators work under current climate regimes, and these regimes are changing. At some point, the tree will start to flower at a different, perhaps less appropriate time, or simply cease to flower. The insect will emerge at a different time, or perhaps be driven away by the emergence of new predators that can now move into the area. If the climate continues to change, local indicators will eventually fail.
I humbly suggest that instead of reengineering entire agroecological systems and their associated economies in the here and now (a fairly high risk enterprise), we should be building upon the capacities that already exist. For example, we can plan for the eventual failure of local indicators – we can study the indicators to understand under what conditions their behaviors will change, identify likely timeframes in which such changes are likely to occur, and create of new tools and sources of information that will be there for farmers when their current sources of information no longer work. We should be designing these tools and that information with the farmers, answering the questions they have (as opposed to the questions we want to ask). We should be building on local capacity, not succumbing to crisis narratives that suggest that these farmers have little capacity, either to manage their current environment or to change with the environment.
Farmers in the Global South have already fed the future. Perhaps they did not do it all that well, and all they managed was to stave off catastrophe. But given the absence of safety nets in most places in the Global South (see Theme 3, points 2 and 3), and the limited access so many farmers have to inputs and irrigation, avoiding catastrophe is an accomplishment that warrants study and serious consideration. We should build on that capacity, not blow it up.
The key principals and points:
1) A future under climate change is not a great unknown for farmers in the Global South. Most farmers have already managed several seasons as difficult, or more difficult, than what we project to be normal in the next few decades. Presuming these farmers are facing a catastrophe they cannot see coming fails to grasp the ways in which these past seasons inform contemporary planning.
2) Farmers have already developed strategies for addressing extreme seasons (i.e. drought or excessive precipitation). We should start with an understanding of what they already do, and why, before moving in with our interventions, lest we inadvertently undo otherwise functional safety nets.
3) Existing indigenous strategies for managing climate variability are not perfect. They tend to overestimate or underestimate actual risks of particular weather and climate states, tend to magnify the importance of the previous season (as opposed to historical averages, or current trends) when planning for the next season, and tend to be very costly in terms of lost potential agricultural productivity.
4) Current indigenous tools for making agricultural decisions, such as local indicators, are likely more robust than any climate product we can deliver right now. Just because this information comes in the form of a plant or animal behavior does not make it any less valid.
5) Current indigenous tools for making agricultural decisions will likely start to fail as climate regimes change. This fact presents an opportunity for development organizations to start working with farmers to identify useful information and ways of providing it such that this information is available when local indicators fail.
*Given the propagation of uncertainty in models of the global climate, global water availability, global land cover, the global economy, and global population (all of which, incidentally, impact one another), I don't pay much attention to model results beyond about 2040, with 2030 being the really outer threshold of information that might usefully inform planning or our understanding of biophysical process. On the 100-year scale, we may as well be throwing darts at a wall as running models. I have no idea why we bother.

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|April 20, 2012, 09:49 PM
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The Officer Down Video
This is an interesting video that someone brought to my attention. I believe its healthy to view and discuss such videos because it makes us better tacticians so to speak. Im not second guessing whats happening in the video, but just trying to see how this situation could have been better.
Here is my feedback in regards:
- Maximum coverage body armor is a must have. The regular designed body armor does not cover a lot of the neck and armpit area. I believe a lot of body armor designers have increased the coverage on their designs seeing that many folks nowadays are getting hit at those vulnerable points.
- Cars are poor choices to hide behind for cover. Rounds will go right through them like butter. If you must get behind a car, then get behind the engine block where the round will have more metal to travel through.
- Never stand directly in the line of sight of the shooter even if you are behind a barrier. Stand at an angle to make it a little harder for the shooter.
- The effective range of a 9mm pistol according to the US Army is 50 meters. So this means at any point within a half football field is the effective range of that firearm. Beyond that range, the round does not become ineffective, but less effective. So you want to stand as far back from the shooter as you can get away with.
- A little blood loss will send you into shock. You wont die from the round, but you will die from shock over a little blood loss. When you are shot or see someone shot, then your first priority is to stop the blood loss. This means you need to find the point where that blood is coming out, get yourself a cloth and apply pressure. If you cant find some cloth, dont be shy, take your shirt off and use that. In emergencies, use anything you can as an improvised bandage.
- If someone is laying on the ground with blood coming out, you want to put down your camera and go treat the person on the ground. All you have to do is stop the blood flow and put a blanket over them so they wont go into shock. You dont need any training to do that. If you are covering a point with a weapon like the other officer is doing, then you want to order whoever is around to treat the person laying on the ground while you cover the point.
- If there is a shooter out there, you want to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of getting close and interjecting yourself into the situation. Obviously, this is a situation which requires an armored SWAT vehicle and specially equipped officers with tactical vests and shields.
So thats my take on this video. Feel free to discuss, agree or disagree. Thank you.
|April 20, 2012, 10:05 PM
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The video is 1% tactics, 99% just watching an officer in shock moan in pain.
|April 20, 2012, 10:18 PM
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I have to disagree, its all tactics from what to wear, where to stand, what to stand behind, how to treat someone who is injured and what happens after a little blood loss. A lot of lessons we can take away from this video.
|April 20, 2012, 10:46 PM
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I agree that if I saw someone that was bleeding out my first instinct would be to treat them. However, it would be a good idea to clearly articulate what you're doing before approaching a wounded officer. IMHO, rushing into help could get YOU shot.
I didn't watch the last ten minutes of the video but I found it weird that no one went for the first-aid kit they carry in squad cars and that no one was holding his wound. Is this video on the up-and-up?
|April 20, 2012, 11:31 PM
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As a medical doctor, that ain't the way I would have reacted. Having the victim hold his own wound is a bit ridiculous to me, but I guess the news doesn't make news, right?
You see a lot of videos of someone being attacked by a wild animal where the other person doesn't help whatsoever but gets a great video. Just one more sign of a sick world in my opinion.
In addition, just because you don't have a lot of external bleeding does not mean you don't have significant internal blood loss. In addition, being shot in the neck, there is very little room for swelling around important structures such as nerves, blood vessels and the trachea. I suspect that was a very serious wound by how fast the officer collapsed and was unable to stand.
Sorry, but don't take that definition of shock and trauma to the medical school review class. That man quickly collapsed and I suspect was in extreme danger by the time he made it to the hospital.
In addition, if you are going to pray for someone which is right to do, put a cloth on the wound as well. Geez, where has common sense gone today?
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|April 21, 2012, 08:40 AM
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The other thing I didnt address in the video is the action of the civilians. The civilians in the house are just walking outside and moving around as curious on-lookers.
If there is some kind of activity outside involving a shooter, then as a civilian, you want to go down into the basement or get low within the house. Rounds will also slice through the house just as well as it did the car. The reality is rounds, especially rifle rounds, will go through most any object around you so the best method for a civilian to be safe is to lay flat on the ground behind something or inside the house.
A civilian should not be shy about helping the officer or be afraid to be mistaken for a bad guy in this situation. Officers are smart people who are on the road everyday. They will be able to distinguish between a well intentioned civilian and a bad guy. In fact, I bet they will even appreciate your efforts. If you see an officer on the ground like this bleeding then you want to get in there and help out. The main priority is to locate the entry and exit. Then you want to plug those wounds with whatever you can. Also, if the wound is to the chest area then you should listen for sucking sounds. If that is the case, then you need to find some plastic and seal it up so the man can breathe.
Time is of the essence as a loss of blood has serious conseqences. If you delay even for just a minute, then the person could die or sustain permanent brain damage.
Whatever you do, you do not want to sit there gawking or slack jawed with your cellphone camera. Lets face it, if you get a million hits on youtube you are not going to be rich and it certainly wont improve your situation with the ladies. You want to take action as a life hangs in the balance. Thats the most important thing.
|April 21, 2012, 09:13 AM
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It would be handy to have a doctor around but they didn't. I think they did the best they could. Maybe they need some training like any army medic would get.
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|April 21, 2012, 10:10 AM
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What Alaska444 said.
|April 21, 2012, 04:47 PM
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Must really suck being an officer in that town. In particular, a wounded officer. The guy has to self rescue while folks (officers and public) just let him squirt....jees. Finally, some officers bail him out with a car. Nobody even attempted direct pressure. Damn potential bloodborne pathogens or crazy shooting guy....the guy needed assistance.
I may just be an armchair quarterback, but I'm sorry.....I could not have let him lay like that.
|April 21, 2012, 07:23 PM
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This is what I call the "Slack Jawed Moment". Something happens and then everyone sits their dumbfounded wondering what is the next step.
The next step is teamwork and decisive action. The officer should have taken the other officer behind the house then told the civilian to keep pressure on the wound while he covers the area. The civilian should have communicated to the officer and said he was going to put pressure on the wound while he covers the area.
Obviously, you cant do two things at once...putting pressure on the wound and covering the area so you need to work like a team together. The teamwork has to be initiated either by the officer or civilian, but someone has to put that foot forward.
|April 22, 2012, 01:33 AM
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I really don't think they did all that bad.
As noted, a car doesn't do all that much to stop rifle bullets. If the healthy officer gets in a car goes 20 yards up the road, stops, lets the hit officer jump in then backs up, you are talking about a lot of exposure to both of them. If the guy who is hit can get out of the line of fire himself, then the healthy officer covering him while he does so makes sense.
I am not sure when the other officers down the road arrive. The footage does not initially show them or the spot they are later seen at. They have a lot more firepower than the officer close to the videographer. Until they show up the healthy officer must pay attention to the shooters location. Afterwards, from what the video shows, he is still holding the weakest point of the box, so if the shooter makes a run for it he likely will come right at them(and be full of holes before he gets there). Maybe shooter is in a house and will drop out a window the officers down the street can't see. All the same he needs to keep an eye on that situation.
Ever shot with blood all over your hands? I haven't, but even in the rain controlling the firearm is considerably more difficult. I do know blood is considerably more slippery than water. I wouldn't want blood on my hands in a shoot out if it could be avoided.
The civilian leaning against the car who helped pull the officer across the road is clearly having problems with the situation. Not sure he will be able to help much. I was in some medical training where we responded to a simulated scenario with a person unconscious and had to figure out what was going on. My partner went to check pulse and the hand came out of the sleeve. Fake hand, the actor made a pretty realistic unconsiouc groaning reaction, and my partner THREW the hand over her shoulder and fell back. It was several minutes later before she was functioning. Blood isn't for everyone.
The videographer is some sort of media person whether freelance, amateur, or professional. Media makes a choice on whether to observe or participate. If they decide to participate they won't make a living observing and we won't have a record of events.
Applying pressure through kevlar is not all that easy. Looks as if the hit is at the edge or just under it(likely folding). Still difficult to work around it. Taking off the vest isn't a great idea either.
You can apply pressure and retain some view of the shooters location. Lay prone and use the other officers body as a rest. Finding a position where you put enough pressure on the wound without putting pressure on the lungs and still remain able to shoot would be a challenge. Not a great solution, but if you have to get both jobs done...
|April 22, 2012, 05:41 AM
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regarding Tactics. my observations:
no appearant first aid training or use of any by other then the shot officer.
No one on scene took command, cops milled around.
Cop shot did nor use cover properly
Wounded cop gave himself better aid the other officer did.
Three cops standing behind SUV with large windows. Maybe concelment but not cover.
The cop who told guys to get back removes the human contact needed by the shot cop for his comfort
Cop with rifle kneeling in the street, no cover
Cop on hillside with rifle had no ideal of what his mission was
Fire dept not waiting until scene secured is a HUGE BAD on their part.
I am not second guessing FIRE. I was a F/F and EMT. I have been on shooting scene and fire or medic do not go in until the scene is secure.
This is a good video to take apart and see what needs to be done to make it work better. Here is my training list from the video:
1. Identify the Incident or scene commander. This can be anyone until relived by a ranking officer or the scene is secured.
2. Get every Tom, Dick and Mary into first aid training.
3. Train for what is cover and concelment and how to use both properly.
4 Establish radio comms polcy since the were at least 3 or 4 agencies involved between LEO and Fire.
Oh a plastic is the worst thing to put on a sucking chest wound. You want something semi stiff covered in plastic, like a drivers liences or ID card. Anything that will seal the air out and not be sucked into the wound itself.
|April 22, 2012, 09:00 AM
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I would be ashamed that I didn't try to help my fellow officer any more than that guy did.
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iPhone 4 available on June 24 in US, France, Germany, Japan and UK
Apple has announced that the iPhone 4 will be available on June 24th, with pre-orders starting on June 15th. The (lucky) 5 countries that will be getting the iPhone 4 first are: US, France, Germany, Japan and UK. Fret not though if you live elsewhere, as the next gen iPhone will be available to another 18 countries (Australia, Canada, HK, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden etc.) sometime in July. By September, Apple will be shipping the phone in 88 countries – which is also their fastest rollout ever.
In terms of price and models, the iPhone 4 will come in both black and white. The Price is $199 in the US for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB. And for all you who've signed a (lifetime) contract with AT&T, Jobs offered some good news:
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BlackBerry takeover? Wanna buy a bridge too?August 9, 2012: 1:01 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, and Abbott Laboratories, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
I had dinner with a bunch of friends last night. One of them wanted to show me a picture from Facebook that my wife posted earlier in the day which I had not yet seen. He took out his phone ... a BlackBerry. After a minute or two of futzing around with it, he realized he wasn't going to get the mobile Facebook app to work. So he gave up ... and then happily confessed that he was soon going to be getting rid of the BlackBerry in favor of a new Galaxy S3 phone from Samsung.
That anecdote pretty much sums up why it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever for Samsung to buy BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIMM). The market share for the BlackBerry operating system has plummeted due to the popularity of Google's (GOOG) Android devices (Samsung is the clear leader in this camp) and Apple's (AAPL) iPhone. But some traders are still of the belief that RIM is eventually going to get bought.
The Samsung-RIM chatter resurfaced Wednesday, sending shares of RIM up 4% yesterday and another 2% today. Part of Thursday's rally may be due to a favorable ruling for RIM in a patent infringement dispute with Mformation Technologies. But investors should not buy into any of the M&A gossip.
Related: 19 secrets revealed in Apple-Samsung trial
For one, Samsung has repeatedly denied that it has any interest in buying RIM, or licensing its technology. Other takeover rumors are equally whimsical.
Faecbook? That's a laugh. Given how poorly Facebook's (FB) stock has done since its IPO due to concerns about its mobile strategy, investors might revolt if the company spent several billion dollars to buy a company that is widely viewed as an also-ran in the new mobile world.
There's also the little issue of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg clearly said during Facebook's first earnings call: Facebook wasn't interested in building a phone.
Related: How to save RIM. Really.
Microsoft (MSFT)? Sure, that rumor has been around for years. And it may have been a marriage made in heaven if it was done when RIM was still an industry leader and Microsoft was struggling to develop a mobile strategy.
But now that Microsoft has launched its own Windows Phone operating system and allied itself with Nokia (NOK), would Microsoft really want RIM -- arguably the only major smartphone company that is hurting more than Nokia -- as well? Microsoft can't cobble together a viable third alternative to Android and iOS with the industry's walking wounded.
Perhaps a wild card like Chinese networking firm Huawei, which has increased its brand awareness lately with a series of ads during the London Olympics, or Amazon (AMZN), which is rumored to be considering the development of its own smartphone, could swoop in and save RIM.
It's also possible that RIM could merely sell patents or other technology. After all, Google paid a lot of money for Motorola Mobility in a deal that was more about Motorola's intellectual property than its Droid phones and Xoom tablets.
Related: RIM execs push salvation plans at shareholder meeting
But investors still pining for a RIM takeover need to remember three key things. First, RIM's management team is stubbornly sticking to the notion that the BlackBerry 10 will be the company's savior ... despite the fact that it's been delayed so many times that it's reasonable to wonder if it will be on the market by the time the Rio Olympics roll around in 2016.>
RIM may have a newish CEO. But Thorsten Heins is still a long-time insider at the company. He may not want his legacy to be the guy who threw in the towel.
Second, given how sharply RIM's stock has fallen, the company has little leverage in negotiating a deal.
Any company that actually still would be interested in buying RIM would be crazy to pay a huge premium -- especially since many in the industry scoffed at how much Google spent on Motorola. Keep in mind that when Palm, the company RIM is often compared to, finally sold out to Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), it was at a fraction of what it was once worth.
Finally, even if the Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM and a buyer were to agree on a deal, you can't underestimate the possibility that Canada's government would block it.
Two years ago, Australian mining giant BHP Billiton (BHP) was forced to give up on its efforts to buy Saskatchewan-based fertilizer firm Potash (POT) after Ottawa said no to the deal. It appeared that the Canadian government was wary of ceding too much control of its natural resources to a non-Canadian company.
Related: If RIM dies, what will happen to its hometown?
And while smartphones may not be minerals, RIM is arguably the only major global tech firm in Canada following the demise of Nortel. So it would be understandable if the Canadian government was reluctant to approve any purchase of it by a foreign firm. In fact, regulators around the world might not look kindly on a deal since BlackBerries, despite losing appeal with consumers and businesses, are still favored by many government agencies because of their security features.
It's true that there is some value in RIM's assets. The company may avoid the "death spiral" that some of the most bearish analysts are predicting. But investors need to give up on the notion that the company is an attractive takeover target. It's not going to happen.


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Bayer CropScience has announced that it has signed an agreement to purchase AgraQuest, Inc. for a purchase price of US$ 425 million (approximately EUR 340 million) plus milestone payments. AgraQuest, headquartered in Davis, California, USA, is a global supplier of innovative biological pest management solutions based on natural microorganisms. This acquisition will enable Bayer CropScience to build a leading technology platform for green products and to strengthen its strategically important fruits and vegetables business, while also opening new opportunities in other crops and markets. Green products control a broad spectrum of pests and diseases and offer farmers integrated pest management programs to minimize development of resistance and maximize crop yields. The acquisition is subject to approval by the relevant authorities.
"The growing fruits and vegetables market, which today accounts for more than 25 percent of our sales, is of strategic importance for us. We plan to achieve EUR 3 billion sales in this segment by 2020 and with the acquisition of AgraQuest we are underlining our growth ambitions," said Sandra Peterson, CEO of Bayer CropScience, sending a strong signal to the market. "We are the first in our industry to offer farmers a truly comprehensive range of integrated crop solutions based on seeds, traits and combined chemical crop protection and biological control," she added.
The tailor-made portfolio and promising R&D pipeline of AgraQuest will help Bayer CropScience to build a broad-based technology platform to bring a new generation of innovative products to the market. Furthermore, this acquisition will help to optimally use R&D, manufacturing and market synergies creating value for both Bayer CropScience and its customers. "AgraQuest expands our existing biological pest control portfolio centered on our successful Votivo™ biological nematicide, and it allows us to further leverage the biotechnology platform we have acquired through Athenix Corporation," said Sandra Peterson.
"We are proud to become part of Bayer CropScience," AgraQuest CEO Marcus Meadows-Smith commented. "AgraQuest is ideally positioned as a technology leader in the global biological market and by joining forces with Bayer CropScience we will be able to develop revolutionary, tailor-made biological solutions. Every AgraQuest employee is passionate about developing innovative solutions for better food, and now the products developed through their hard work will be made available to farmers in every corner of the world." AgraQuest has its own sales force in the NAFTA crop protection market, and sells its green products through a network of distributors and partners in other global regions.
The company's current product portfolio includes well-established product brands such as Serenade®, Rhapsody®, Sonata® and Ballad® fungicides and Requiem® insecticides, which provide effective disease and pest control and will complement Bayer CropScience's product offering. Bayer CropScience will also leverage AgraQuest's technology platform and its promising pipeline of new biological control agents. Several new pipeline products, which include acaracides, fungicides and nematicides, amongst others, are under development, and have undergone successful early field evaluations. Through the acquisition Bayer CropScience will integrate AgraQuest's state-of-the-art biopesticides production facility in Tlaxcala, Mexico, as well as the company's R&D site in Davis. AgraQuest employs a total staff of approximately 250 full-time employees.
AgraQuest products are available today in more than 30 countries including Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil and European countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy. They are used in diverse market segments such as fruits and vegetables, broad-acre crops, post-harvest protection, turf, home and garden and animal health.


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BEDFORD — The Gulfstream IV jet that crashed at Hanscom Field Saturday night, killing seven people, reached a speed of 190 miles per hour before slowing down during its attempted takeoff and hurtling into a gully, air crash investigators said Tuesday.
Information from the plane's flight data recorder indicated that the jet's thrust reversers had been turned on and that brake pressures were rising, Luke Schiada, the lead investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, said at the scene.
The scenario described by the investigator suggested that the pilots were trying to abort the takeoff, one veteran pilot said. Thrust reversers are typically used to slow planes down by diverting jet exhaust to the front, rather than the back, as in normal operation.
"The thrust reversers deployed and the wheel brake pressures rose as the airplane decelerated," Schiada said. "We're also observing tire marks on the runway."
Schiada declined to say outright that the pilots were trying to stop the plane, saying: "We're not interpreting the information that the thrust reversers were deployed. . . . I don't want to interpret what the actions are."
He also did not give any indication as to why the crew might have been trying to stop the plane.
"We're not going to speculate," Schiada said.
However, Bruce Landsberg, an experienced pilot and president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Foundation in Frederick, Md., said it sounded as though the pilots had decided to halt the plane.
It appeared, he said, that "the crew, for whatever reason, decided they needed to reject the takeoff, and they ran out of runway before they got the airplane stopped."
As it raced down the runway, the airplane reached a maximum speed of about 165 knots, or about 190 miles per hour, Schiada said. But the flight data recorder indicated it never left the ground.
The flight recording ends about seven seconds after the thrust reversers were deployed. At that point, the plane had slowed to about 100 knots, or 115 miles per hour, Schiada said.
In addition, the jet's cockpit voice recorder captured various callouts in the cockpit, including "rotate," as the plane sped down the runway. That is typically the signal from the copilot to the pilot to pull back on the control yoke and bring the nose up, Landsberg said.
"After the rotate callout, the [cockpit voice recorder] captured comments concerning aircraft control," Schiada said.
The NTSB investigator would not elaborate on what those comments were.
Schiada said the cockpit voice recording ultimately ended with the sound of impact.
On Monday, investigators recovered the two recorders. Schiada stressed that the analysis of the data from the recorders was preliminary "and we still have a great deal of work to do."
He said both devices had captured hours of data, including the final 49 seconds of the flight when the plane began to roll down the runway and then crashed.
According to Schiada, the cockpit voice recorder had captured about two hours of "good to excellent" audio, while the flight data recorder had captured about 41 hours of data. Both devices were made by L-3 Communications.
The plane was taking off at about 9:40 p.m. Saturday, heading to Atlantic City, N.J., with Lewis Katz, 72, co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, aboard, as well as three of his guests and a three-member crew.
NTSB officials have said the plane left the end of the official runway, which is 7,011 feet long, traveled another 1,000 feet over extra paved surface, and then another 819 feet on the grass before hurtling into a gully at the edge of the airport, where it was consumed by flames.
Along the way, the Gulfstream IV destroyed an antenna used to guide planes on instrument landing approaches, as well as a chain-link fence, investigators have said.
The crew members aboard the plane were: pilot James McDowell, 51, of Georgetown, Del.; copilot Bauke "Mike" De Vries, 45, of Marlton, N.J.; and flight attendant Teresa Ann Benhoff, 48, of Easton, Md.
Katz's guests were Anne Leeds, a retired preschool teacher from Longport, N.J.; Marcella Dalsey, executive director of the Drew A. Katz Foundation; and Susan K. Asbell, who served with Dalsey on the strategic planning committee of the Boys & Girls Club of Camden County, N.J.
Investigators expect to remain at the crash site gathering information through the end of the week, Schiada said. A preliminary report on the crash is expected to be issued by the agency next week.
In the meantime, Schiada said, investigators will continue reviewing information about the flight crew, witness statements, and surveillance footage, among other evidence. The recorders have been forwarded to NTSB labs in Washington, D.C.
Schiada said that investigators had not found any problems with the plane's brakes or tires and that authorities were also reviewing the configuration of the flaps at takeoff.
Investigators have not had a chance to examine the engines yet, he said.
Bruce "Buck" Rodger, president of the Los Angeles-based Aero Consulting Experts, said a number of factors may have contributed to the crash.
"There's always a buildup to a reason why an airplane has crashed," Rodger said. "There will be more than one event here, absolutely."
More coverage:
• Gulfstream IVs have few blemishes on safety record
• Photos: Plane crash at Hanscom Field
• Audio: 911 calls made after the crash
• Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner killed in crash
• Ex-Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell invited on jet that crashed
• Inquirer sale to proceed as planned, partner says
Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen
@globe.com. Martin Finucane can be reached at martin.


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She recently bought a new laptop with a low-end processor, so I installed a lightweight distro on it. I forget what DE it has on it now. I looked at the new version (4.8) and I like it. How do I install it through the terminal? I am currently running Ubuntu 11.04 with Gnome (v2).
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I discovered an interesting mystery working In-Patient Psychiatry for almost thirty years: I discovered that our staff rarely admitted happy patients for treatment.
Regardless of a person's psychiatric diagnosis – depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or any other psychological set of disorders – we turned away happy people. Some potential patients presented with auditory or visual hallucinations, which create serious problems sometimes. But hallucinations or not, if they seemed happy, they were sent by staff into outpatient treatment.
In contrast, folks we almost always admitted for in-patient treatment presented not only with a psychiatric disorder, but, also, they felt angry, very sad, paranoid, or actively suicidal; and, their mood served as the deciding factor for admission to In-Patient Treatment.
This mystery perplexed me for years, until one day it occurred to me that families, friends, and communities reached out to care for happy people regardless of a person's problem or set of problems. Happy people lived unthreatening lives, allowing average people, however we wish to define "average," to go along with their lives without too many discombobulations or other interruptions.
For example, sometimes on a walk through downtown Salt Lake City, I noticed an occasional person hallucinating, chatting with themselves or with some invisible person while waiting for the traffic light to let them cross the street. They sometimes smiled and laughed out loud.
"Average" people walking along the same sidewalk noticed that person's odd behavior and maybe thought twice about them. Yet, without exception, they simply walked past the happily hallucinating person without apparent reservation. Overall, no one appeared alarmed as if saying to themselves, "Oh well. There's no harm chatting merrily with one's self, is there?" Life went on as usual. No one appeared compelled to rush Mr. or Ms. Chatty Person to the hospital for immediate treatment. The sense of an impending crisis never surfaced. And, frankly, I often got to chatting with them, myself, starting with "Hey. How's it going?" They often became welcoming; and, sometimes their response to me struck my funny bone, like, "I know I never met you before, but you look like you ought to be a pastor."
Take the same situation, but this time our hallucinating Mr. or Ms. Chatty Person starts angrily yelling at cars passing by and begins making threats to passersby, and shakes a fist at one or two people walking along the sidewalk. Not before too long, someone might say to themselves, "I sense an impending crisis. Time to intervene. This could get dangerous."
See the difference? One happy and merry person, although acting oddly, eventually lands across the street when the light allows; however, the angrier, although equally odd person, might earn a free trip to a treatment facility, like one where I once worked.
Each person's mood served as the only difference in outcome.
The author of Philippians summed up this difference fairly well, writing, "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near." (Philippians Chapter 4: 4-5, New International Version)
If we successfully train ourselves to rejoice and to feel happy, the author of Philippians teaches how our mood creates a gentler world. Rejoicing and experiencing a happy mood achieves more than making a decent day for ourselves. Rejoicing, joy, happiness – whatever word you choose – transforms our world.
The challenge, of course, arises from billions of people who practice dozens of religions and who speak hundreds of different languages and who develop completely different opinions about life's meaning, and who can quickly and easily engender conflict. If we found and practiced ways to rejoice and live happily despite our differences, then our world becomes gentler, encouraging most to reach out to one another.
Put succinctly, mood matters. Christian or non-Christian, mood matters. What we say matters less than how we say it. Being a different creed, race, religion, or culture matters less than how we talk about our differences.
So as our biblical sage writes, "Rejoice… I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all."
How about transforming our world this way right now?
Tom Towns is pastor of First United Methodist Church in Cortez.


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